COMS W4995 C++ for C Programmers

Summer (A) 2023

• Tue & Thu 4:10-7:20pm 4:15-7:20pm, 833 Mudd

• Synchronous final exam on Thursday June 29th, 4:30pm (Length TBD)
  • Final exam is in-person except CVN and pre-arranged special cases
  • There are no make-up or alternate exams.
  • Please do not take the course if you are not available at that time.

• Instructor: Jae Woo Lee

• Office hours:
  • Jae’s office hours
  • TA office hours

Course essentials

• OVERVIEW AND LOGISTICS
• REQUIRED READING: ACADEMIC HONESTY POLICIES
• Linux Programming Environment – same as COMS 3157
• Jae’s Git Tutorial – same as COMS 3157
• Lab submission instruction

Lectures

5/23

• Course overview and logistics
  • Slides: OVERVIEW AND LOGISTICS
• Hello C++
  • compiling & linking C++ code with Makefile
  • string, iostream, namespace
    • Makefile, hello.cpp

5/25

• Basic-4 in C++
  • constructors and destructor
  • stack allocations and heap allocations
  • passing by value vs. passing by reference
  • three cases of copy construction
  • const member functions
  • copy assignment
  • compiler-generated basic4
    • Makefile, basic4.cpp

5/30

• MyString class
  • Basic-4 of MyString class
  • Inlining member functions
  • operator+
  • put-to & get-from operators
  • operator[]
  • exception handling
    • MyString class & test drivers

6/1

• Template functions
  • Makefile, template1.cpp
• Essential-6 in C++
  • Basic-4 plus move constructor & move assignment
  • rvalue reference
  • copy elision eliminates move
  • casting to rvalue reference
    • Makefile, template2.cpp
• Vector template class
  • Makefile, template3.cpp
• Inheritance
  • Object layout
  • Static binding vs. dynamic binding
  • Virtual function table structure
  • Multiple inheritance
  • Object construction order
    • inherit1.cpp, inherit2.cpp, inherit3.cpp

6/6

• I/O streams
  • I/O stream class hierarchy
  • I/O state
  • Mixing C and C++ I/O
    • io1.cpp, io2.cpp
  • I/O of user-defined types
  • String streams
  • File streams
    • io3.cpp
    • Sample data files: good, malformed
• to<>() template function using stringstream
  • to.cpp
• Revisited Vector template class
  • Replacing Vec with std:vector
    • template4.cpp
  • Runtime complexity of vector::push_back()
  • Value semantics
    • diagram of Vec<MyString>

6/8

• Sequential STL containers
  • array
  • vector
  • deque
  • list & forward_list
    • Makefile, stl1.cpp
• Iterators
  • For_Each() template function
  • begin() & end()
    • Makefile, stl2.cpp
• Associative containers
  • map, multimap, unordered_map, unordered_multimap
    • Makefile, words.cpp

Assignments

• HW0 Part A due T 5/23
• HW0 Part B due R 5/25
• Lab 1 due Sun 5/28
• Lab 2 due Mon 6/5
• Lab 3 due Mon 6/12
• Final exam on Thu 6/29, 4:30pm (Length TBD)

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Last updated: 2023-06-07